Module EDUS1661: SCHOOL EXPERIENCE

Department: Education [Queen's Campus, Stockton]

EDUS1661: SCHOOL EXPERIENCE

Prerequisites

• None.

Corequisites

• The School as a Learning Environment (EDUS1551) AND Understanding and Developing the Core Curriculum (EDUS1561).

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None.

Aims

• This module aims to establish the individual student's understanding of his/her role as a Specialist Teacher Assistant, to develop and reinforce the concept of team participation and contribution and enable each STA student to work in a different educational environment to his/her norm.

Content

• School experience assessed against a competency document.
• It is expected that each of the competencies is completed over the course of the year.
• Activities necessary to allow completion of the document will be negotiated between each student and his/her class teacher/mentor.
• The School experience includes a six week period when students are required to pair up and work as a team in each others' school on three occasions.
• Students will be required to describe, record and evaluate all processes, events and results relating to the six week Paired Experience period, from partner selection to planned input and implementation.

Learning Outcomes

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• Improving own learning abd performance in supporting primary age children in a classroom situation.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

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Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Oral feedback from class teacher / mentor.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University